I have an option box filled with options, like this:
<div class="OptionBox">
<div class="Option">
<div class="AddRemoveIcon"></div>
<img src="images/users/user_1000000002.jpg">
<span class="Label">Student Name<span class="SubLabel">Student</span></span>
</div>
<div class="Option">...</div>
</div>
Styles are like this:
.OptionBox{
overflow: auto;
max-height: 200px;
max-width:300px;
display: inline-block;
}
.Option {
display: block;
}
.Option .AddRemoveIcon,
.Option img,
.Option .Label {
display: inline-block;
vertical-align: middle;
margin-right: 5px;
}
I'm using inline-blocks because I like the vertical-align:middle, and the SubLabel span is not always present... But this problem occurs for float:left also...
My problem is when I have enough Options in the Option box to cause overflow-y. For whatever reason, the browsers size things correctly (ie, figure the width of each option and adjust the option box width accordingly), then add scrollbars. The result is that the widest options have their Label div bumped down a line because the scrollbars have removed X pixels from the Option box's width. When I switch to float:left for the children of an Option, the Label div wraps based on the scrollbars. In either case, the .OptionBox is never pushed to an optimum width for the widest option. The wrapping should only happen when the max-width is reached, right? Here's a fiddle of it.
What I'm after - and I'm sure I'm asking for the moon - is either a way to reposition scrollbars so they don't take away from the width of the OptionBox, or some magic CSS rule, which tells the browser to consider the scrollbars when sizing (kind of like how box-sizing:border-box tells the browser to consider padding/borders when setting the width of an element).
Any thoughts? Thanks in advance!
You should be able to fix this by setting your outer-most div to be overflow: hidden. That way you won't get the y-overflow and the scrollbar will not appear.
I'm pretty sure I saw some css to keep the scrollbar from coming up without this, but can't find it atm.
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In this example...
HTML
<body>
<div>
<div>foo bar</div>
</div>
</body>
CSS
body, html, div {
height: 100%;
margin: 0;
}
div div {
display: inline-block;
overflow: hidden;
}
Why does overflow: hidden cause a vertical scrollbar? Additionally, why is this height not attributed to anything on the page? It's like an invisible margin.
The 100% height of all the elements is intentional. In theory, that should cause the inner-most div to expand to meet the viewport. And it does! ...so long as overflow: hidden is not there, Why?
The extra height is the same height as the height difference between vertical-align: baseline, and vertical-align: bottom. The "descender line". That's where the seemingly random "5 extra pixels" comes from. If the font size is 10 times as large, this gap will also be 10 times as large.
Also, it seems that when overflow: hidden is not there, the inline-block element has its baseline as the same baseline of its last line of text.
This leads me to believe that overflow: hidden forces the baseline of the entire inline-block element to be at the bottom of the element. Even though there is no text there, the parent of the inline-block element reserves space for the descender line. In the example given in the question, it cannot be easily seen since the parent of the inline-block element has height: 100%. So, instead, that extra space reserved for the descender line overflows out of that parent div.
Why is this space still there, even though there's no text? I think that's because the inline-block creates an inline formatting context, which is what causes this space. Were this element to be a block, it would only create this inline formatting context once it encounters an inline element or text.
This is just a theory, but it seems to explain it. It also explains why #Jonny Synthetic's answer works: adding overflow: hidden to the parent hides that extra descender line.
Thanks to #Hashem Qolami for the jsbins that gave me this theory.
Adding overflow: hidden to the parent div wasn't an option for me, and also because of my HTML's structure it wasn't working.
However, I noticed thanks to #Tony Gustafsson's comment in the OP that this does fix the problem:
div div {
vertical-align: bottom;
}
Items with a height of 100% need to have overflow: hidden as well. The first css rule only targets the outside div, the overflow hidden is being applied to the inside div.
Jsfiddle with this CSS and it worked fine:
body, html, div {
height: 100%;
margin: 0px;
padding:0px;
overflow: hidden;
}
div div {
display: inline-block;
overflow: hidden;
}
I have the following CSS:
#slot {
width: 70px;
height: 25px;
line-height: 25px;
border: 2px solid black;
background-color: #00ffee;
padding: 1px;
overflow: hidden;
}
#element {
text-align: center;
}
And HTML:
<div id="slot">
<p id="element">100 </p>
</div>
I would like the <div> to be of fixed size, and whatever number is in <p> (only numbers will be inserted there), I would like to have them centered right in the middle without changing the size of the bigger <div>.
I already set the height of the div to what I want, but having line-height in there has an advantage and a disadvantage. The advantage is that the number finally appears centered right in the middle. The disadvantage is that when I remove the number (it's an empty <p>), the <div>'s height shrinks.
How can I achieve my goal?
EDIT:
I used min-height and that fixed the issue. My issue now is that the content of the div doesn't appear in the middle and is cut like this:
Why is this happening? This is very weird because jsfiddle shows it correctly.
Happens on all browsers.
See the fiddle for demo and if you remove the value div will not shrink.
Fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/RFN2h/
Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/RFN2h/embedded/result/
If CSS works on JS Fiddle and does not work in browsers, you likely have other CSS from the browser defaults or on your page that is hampering the CSS you posted. You could figure out what CSS is being overriden. This can easily be done with say Firebug or Chrome Web Developer. (overriden CSS is striked through).
Likely, the browser is imposing default paddings or margins for paragraphs. You could reset any browser CSS with any of the tactics listed on this page. http://www.cssreset.com/
I've a big problem!
You know, a div default width is 100% (of the parent). And if its content width is more than 100% (100%=1440px), div shows content in multiply lines.
Now, if i want, the div shows its content in one line, what should I do? look at the simple code::
<div>
<div>aaa</div>
<div>bbb</div>
<div>ccc</div>
<div>ddd</div>
......(more than 100 other div, with unknown width)
</div>
NOTE: I don't know the content width.
I tried display: inline; and display: inline-block; and display: table;. they didn't work.
NOTE 2: I tried display: -moz-box;. It works, but Only in FIREFOX!
Thanks ...
The simplest way is to use white-space: nowrap on the parent, and display: inline-block on the children:
See: http://jsfiddle.net/4Yv83/
I also added overflow-x: auto, because presumably you don't want this.
Just tell the text inside the div not to wrap.
div {
white-space: nowrap;
}
a few years passed but ... I think it would be better to set overflow to hidden, because we don't need to show all of children elements at once. we use this kind of styling in thumb-slide like components. so I suggest to set "overflow:hidden" to parent element.
/* for parent element */
overflow: hidden;
I'm setting a height of 20px on a <div>, though when it renders in the browser, its only 14px high.
Any ideas?
<div style="display:inline; height:20px width: 70px">My Text Here</div>
You cannot set height and width for elements with display:inline;. Use display:inline-block; instead.
From the CSS2 spec:
10.6.1 Inline, non-replaced elements
The height property does not apply. The height of the content area should be based on the font, but this specification does not specify how. A UA may, e.g., use the em-box or the maximum ascender and descender of the font. (The latter would ensure that glyphs with parts above or below the em-box still fall within the content area, but leads to differently sized boxes for different fonts; the former would ensure authors can control background styling relative to the 'line-height', but leads to glyphs painting outside their content area.)
EDIT — You're also missing a ; terminator for the height property:
<div style="display:inline; height:20px width: 70px">My Text Here</div>
<!-- ^^ here -->
Working example: http://jsfiddle.net/FpqtJ/
This worked for me:
min-height: 14px;
height: 14px;
Also, make sure you add ";" to each style. Your excluding them from width and height and while it might not be causing your specific problem, it's important to close it.
<div style="height:20px; width: 70px;">My Text Here</div>
You're loosing your height attribute because you're changing the block element to inline (it's now going to act like a <p>). You're probably picking up that 14px height because of the text height inside your in-line div.
Inline-block may work for your needs, but you may have to implement a work around or two for cross-browser support.
IE supports inline-block, but only for elements that are natively inline.
Set positioning to absolute. That will solve the problem immediately, but might cause some problems in layout later. You can always figure out a way around them ;)
Example:
position:absolute;
Position absolute fixes it for me. I suggest also adding a semi-colon if you haven't already.
.container {
width: 22.5%;
size: 22.5% 22.5%;
margin-top: 0%;
border-radius: 10px;
background-color: floralwhite;
display:inline-block;
min-height: 20%;
position: absolute;
height: 50%;
}
You try to set the height property of an inline element, which is not possible. You can try to make it a block element, or perhaps you meant to alter the line-height property?
I'm told that it's bad practice to overuse it, but you can always add !important after your code to prioritize the css properties value.
.p{height:400px!important;}
use the min-height property. min-height:20px;
I have a div with two nested divs inside, the (float:left) one is the menu bar, and the right (float:right) should display whatever content the page has, it works fine when the window is at a maximum, but when i resize it the content is collapsed until it can no longer has any space, at which it is forced to be displayed BELOW the left menu bar, how can I make the width fixed so that the user may scroll when resized?
(css width didn't work, i alternated between floating the right content and not), here is the code:
<div style="width:100%">
<div style="float:left; background:#f5f5f5; border-right:1px solid black; height:170%; width:120px;"></div>
<div style="margin-right:2px;margin-top:15px; margin-bottom:5px; width:100%; border:1px solid #f5f5f5"></div>
</div>
I only need to have this working on Interner Explorer for now.
This should do it (container is the parent div containing that 2 divs):
.container {
width: 1024px;
display: block;
}
You may want to set a width on the containing div and set your overflow property
#containing_div {
width: 200px;
overflow: auto;
}
Also use the min-width property on the page if that makes sense, however that CSS property doesn't really work with IE6, this is usually what I do in that situation (supporting Firefox, IE7, IE6, etc)
#container {
min-width: 1000px;
_width: 1000px; /* This property is only read by IE6, which gives a fixed width */
}
Well, putting a width or min-width property is the way to go.
Now, without an example, or a link of the actual page, it's a bit tricky to answer.
Simply don't make the right div floating. Menu is already floating left of any other content. Just set a left-margin for the right div so the content in that div won't be wrapped around the floating div.
if the two divs are taking up 100% of the available width, could try to use percentage width and display: inline with a further div with a fixed min-width/width (boo IE) inside where required.
this is rather difficult without some HTML to go on
Your containing div should have a width wide enough to contain both inner div's
So if your two inner div's are 300px each and assuming you have no margin/padding on them then you should set the outer div to be 600px;
I'm a bit confused:
Fixed width means the width of a node will not change. Never.
You say you want to scroll when the screen gets too small for your content, so I think you mean the exact oposite of fixed width.
If my assumption is right, you could as mentioned before go for the percentual widths.
Watch out width the suggested "min-width" solution because it is not supported all that well.
<div id="container" style="width:100%">
<div id="primaryNav" style="float:left; width:150px; background-color: Orange">someNav</div>
<div id="content" style="margin-left: 10px; background-color: Red; overflow: auto;">
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</div>
</div>
This should be pretty cross browser